Anne Phillips Quotes
Anne Phillips is a British political philosopher, Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science emerita at the London School of Economics, and one of the most influential contemporary feminist political theorists in the analytic tradition. The Politics of Presence argued for the political importance of the descriptive representation of women and minorities in democratic institutions, in addition to the representation of their interests, while Multiculturalism without Culture warned against the cultural essentialism into which some defenses of multicultural rights have fallen. The quotes below are attributed to Anne Phillips, organized by topic.
Anne Phillips on Politics
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Attributed to Anne Phillips:
“The presence of women and minorities in political institutions is itself a form of representation, not merely a means to it.”
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“Multiculturalism need not, and should not, fix culture as the property of any one description.”
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“The body cannot be removed from political philosophy without removing the citizen who has the body.”
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“Equality of status is not the same as equality of outcome, but neither is it independent of it.”
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“Contractualist political philosophy thinks itself disembodied; it has merely forgotten the bodies it presupposes.”